After a long delay, tips on dealing with procrastination

I've been lax in sending out leadership tips. So this piece on procrastination by Chip Scanlan seems like a good place to start. It might be helpful if you have a reporter who procrastinates (and who doesn't?). Maybe you should read it tomorrow.

Some of the best advice you can give reporters is to "zig when others zag" (that's not original with me but I can't remember where I heard it first). This column by Greg Mitchell underscores that point.

This cautionary story by Greg Bowers of the Missouri School of Journalism reminds us that the push to break news online quickly doesn't override the timeless obligation to verify your facts and get the story right.

This Jill Geisler column has some advice for managing change.

I'll apologize for including too much of my own stuff in here, but I've written a few other pieces that I think might be helpful for newsroom leaders. If you don't understand what newsrooms need to do to innovate, or if you think innovation is the job of the people on the business side of your newspaper, read this story I wrote for The American Editor. And this piece I wrote for the "Training Tracks" column on this web site.

This piece I wrote for "Training Tracks" deals with the temptation to overplay good-cop-bad-cop, both by assigning editors and by reporters dealing with sources:

And I'll try not to procrastinate on posting ut leadership tips.